Current Statistics of Depression

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Did You Know???

• Depressive disorders affect approximately 18.8 million American adults or about 9.5% of the U.S. population age 18 and older in a given year. This includes major depressive disorder, dysthymic disorder, and bipolar disorder.
• Everyone, will at some time in their life be affected by depression -- their own or someone else's
• Pre-Schoolers are the fastest-growing market for antidepressants. At least four percent of preschoolers are clinically depressed. Even Toddlers experience some kind of depression.
• The rate of increase of depression among children is 23%

  Research by SAMHSA and RTI International

• 15% of the population of most developed countries suffers severe depression.
• 30% of women are depressed. Men's figures were previously thought to be half that of women, but new estimates are higher.
• 41% of depressed women are too embarrassed to seek help.
• 80% of depressed people are not currently having any treatment.15% of depressed people will commit suicide.
• Depression will be the second largest killer after heart disease by 2020 -- and studies show depression is a contributory factor to Heart Disease
• Antidepressants work for 35 to 45% of the depressed population, while more recent figures suggest as low as 30%.
• The most common symptoms aof depression are frequent thoughts of death or suicide (32%), low self esteem (29%) and sleep disturbance (28%).
• Despite the fact that 88% of people think it is important that depression is openly discussed, 72% do not think that it is easy to discuss and 60% think it would be a difficult condition to talk to a doctor about. Worryingly, 62% of people would be embarrassed to discuss depression with their peer group and 77% of people think depression is not well understood.
• When compared with other illnesses in terms of perceived disruptiveness, depression (59%) was rated above Parkinson's diseases (57%), heart disease (40%), anxiety disorder (29%), arthritis (24%), diabetes (16%) and asthma(14%). http://churchrelevance.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/teens-with-mde.jpg